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And so, like a kind of molting

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So for now, let the snow fall, but let it fall gently, each flake as a soft piano note

The Bowery Scene (Memoir, 1981; edited by Charlotte Curtis)

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It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...

Contained

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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.

Steel and Spell

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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose

C-ing History

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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.

Open Wounds

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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

In Brief

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I can admire Falling Water and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.

Easy Lessons

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A hinge in my heart is broken.

Still Dancing b/w Smokey Conversation

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an engine stalls out in the parking lot the driver tears her skirt coming through the door

Physics 101

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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.

Dear Caddy

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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.

Falling

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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

How to Stop Doing and Be

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Monday will come soon enough to get/ what needs to be done, done.

Cut-offs

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The sauce is you

Go ahead

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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.

Coming From Alabama

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In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

The Rocket

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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.

Bunking off

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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.

Fifteen

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“We could dooble date,” he said.

CARTOGRAPHY

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Your brother is not really blind.

driving

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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

When Birds Do Not Fly

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The last chick in the nest

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

this isn't what i was trying to write, you ass

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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.

Old Shoes for Stranded Soles

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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …

Tu me rends fou

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Feeding you a taste of croissant

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

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Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

Barrier Island

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At the beach house

Deus Ex Machina

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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields / Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/ Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/ Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/ scheduled breathing poses

One Sick, Two Sick, Red Sick, Blue Sick

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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier